Further Reading

Don Norman writes about activity-centered design in his controversially titled essay “Human-Centered Design Considered Harmful.”[8]

In Software for Use [CL99], Larry Constantine and Lucy Lockwood advocate “usage-centered design,” rather than “user-centered design.”

Robert Hoekman writes about activity-centered design in Designing the Obvious [Hoe06].

Of course, there are other kinds of design processes than the ones mentioned in this chapter. For example, Alan Cooper explains a design process called Goal-Directed Design in About Face [Coo95].

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